Workmen's advocate., 1887-02-26
LET THEM STARV.
FOOLS KILLED BY THEIR OV
 FOLLY.
What Good Mayor Hewitt, of M York, Thinks of the Deseryiagl Poor. How He Proposes
 To Encourage Proud
 Self. Reliance.

backed, democratic" workinl of New York City cast their for Society-Savior Hewitt, as posed to Henry George, the ind pendent labor candidate. PreviouS to the election, Hewitt, in various speeches, indicated fervor of anx- lety to aid the workingmen, which has been seldom equalled and never excelled in the annals of political campaigning. Upon one occasion, he even went so far as to remark gal follows: ''l am workingman. ly have every sympathy with the works ingman. l am determined to use every effort to elevate and improv6| his condition. They say that thia ' campaign will kill me. l welcoW death in such cause.' After slk an expression of a determination "do or die" one would have expect something better than the followin which is his first official act since H3 resigned his bed and undertook til duties of his office.
 Mrs. J. M. c. Lamadrid, Ia phil anthropically inclined lady, proposed to establish at her own expense the poorer districts of New Y1 City, number of booths wherH poor could obtain food at noA | price. Permission to erect thd booths was granted by the Board Aldermen. but Hewitt returned th4 bill, vetoed. This is what he said
 q return without my approval reso. lution granting to Mrs. J. M. Clementin Lamadrid the privilege to place and maiu tain at her own expense covered bf or stands at certain places specit the resolution, to be used for the flu ing of meals to the poor at rates Il ceedng one cent for each article o1 so furnished, to be paid by the consl and at no charge or expense to thdl
  of New York.
 "Under numerous decisions of tll( courts l think it cannot be controversial that the booths proposed to be erect6 are illegal, and would have to be remove as membranes upon the complaint any citizen. The only justification f assuming the right to grant this privil6 is to be found in the fact that the i1 tion of the grantee is to carry out she regards as a charitable schem the ber "'it of the poor. But, il judgmen., o far from improving condition of the poorer classes Of city, it would tend to their demoral tion and to the increase of the mum who would come to look upon food s' at nominal prices as means of suppl If there were any great exigency at present time which required the dia button of food at merely nominal rat would not be disposed to interpose position to any plan by which the su ings of those in want might be dih1 ished The effect of supplying food at nominal rate of one cent per meal wou unquestionably be largely to increase number of those who would rely uI chance for procuring the means of 1 hood.
 How is this for a good old toned united democrat? E Mir. Hewitt's objections Is stl fuge. The only exception VII would hold for a moment, IS sha the illegality of the erection of bod but what of the hundreds of ne stands and licensed vendors boot which grace the curbs of the cit If these are not illegal, how can food booths be illegal?
 The fact is, Mayor Hewitt dved-in-the-wool hypocrite, who lose no opportunity to put a nall the laborer's coffin. But 1t could expected from man who gave ut ance to the following expressl9 opinion in public speech at
 more thirty years ago, when hq
 longed to the Knownothings:
 "America was made by God Alml for the Americans. We want no dirt shiftless Irisl emigrants; no frowz beer-drinking Germans; no Italians,
 Poles; no Swedes I hereby place my self on record as in favor of laws restrlc ing emigration Let Us unite and dril this ragged, filthy horde back to tii9
 mud-huts i'll Europe.